Time Stamp Inconsistancies

I have my computer's clock set to automatically sync with the Apple time server, and I also have a digital clock in the other room that syncs with the radio broadcast from the American atomic clock. Both system register identical times, and yet the time stamps on posts here in the MR forums seem to be a few minutes back. As an example, I'm going to post this thread at exactly 4:31 PM according to both of my clocks.

Not as bad as the FunMac forums...they run about 10 minutes fast. This can be misleading: I'll visit at 7:14 PM, see it says "last post, 7:14 PM" and think to myself "oh, new posts" and then find out that the last post was actually 10 minutes ago (7:04). I PM'ed AmbitiousLemon on FunMac asking about it, but got no response, so I dunno what's up with that.

My dad has an alarm clock that syncs with radio. The clock, however, is almost always off, which I really don't understand. It doesn't do Daylight Savings Time, either. Everytime it's off for too much, he has to take the batteries out to reset it - as there is no way of setting the time by hand. I think that clock is the reason why I lost all faith in humanity.

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